gentle
/ˈd͡ʒɛn.tl̩/ verb C2- To become gentle.
- To break; to tame; to domesticate.
- To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
He/she/it gentles · Past gentled · Past participle gentled · -ing form gentling
Verb forms
- Base form
- gentle
- He/she/it
- gentles
- Past
- gentled
- Past participle
- gentled
- -ing form
- gentling
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There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth’s mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original than she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance.
Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.
He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be.
“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.
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